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1 year ago ::
Apr 12, 2012 - 12:31PM
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- Unconventional Mafia Pro
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the art is gorgeous... and for some reason gets one of the tracks from "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" stuck in my head. The one that plays in the flashback. If you know it, you know what I'm talking about by now. Also, neat tribal enabler. I want to use it with Call to the Kindred  , but I can't think of any tribe that has a strong presence in both blue and green, and a good enough curve to justify these two. (low cost members in play, high cost ones to drop)
"Enjoy your screams, Sarpadia - they will soon be muffled beneath snow and ice." THE COALITION WAR GAME-Phyrexian Praetor Round 1: (4-1-2, 1 kill) Round 2: (16-8-2, 4 kills) Round 3: (18-9-2, 1 kill) Round 4: (22-10-0, 2 kills) Round 5: (56-16-3, 9 kills) Round 6: (8-7-1) [current round] Last Edited by Ralph on blank, 1920
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1 year ago ::
Apr 12, 2012 - 1:47PM
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I already play a Call To The Kindred-based U/W Humans. I can't tell you how fun it is to get a free Fiend Hunter or Hero Of Bladehold.
This allows a G/W version, or Bant if you want to get adventurous.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 12, 2012 - 2:14PM
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Date Joined:
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seems pretty crazy with vengeful pharaoh  in a zombie deck
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1 year ago ::
Apr 12, 2012 - 3:31PM
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the art is gorgeous... and for some reason gets one of the tracks from "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" stuck in my head. The one that plays in the flashback. If you know it, you know what I'm talking about by now.
Also, neat tribal enabler. I want to use it with Call to the Kindred , but I can't think of any tribe that has a strong presence in both blue and green, and a good enough curve to justify these two. (low cost members in play, high cost ones to drop)
The snake decks of yore were UG, try that.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 12, 2012 - 10:34PM
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Date Joined:
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Original art for cards is normally around $500.
I might spring.
Looking on Terese Nielsen's website, It might cost a bit more than that. Some of them are over $1000, and it's $850 for Elder of Laurels  which is just 10x8 inch colored pencil. Some of them are already sold out - I couldn't find Nature's Spiral  - so you will probably have to be quick if you want this one.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 13, 2012 - 2:15AM
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Date Joined:
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I can see this being coupled with either a bant or naya colored aggro soulbond/humans deck. Basically you could cast all your little aggro dudes for free, and draw something good after the reveal. Even if some of the soulbonds are double color this would offset the fact since they'd be a free cast. Seems like a decent aggro idea. Guess we gotta wait to see what other humans and soulbond are previewed.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 13, 2012 - 7:26AM
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Date Joined:
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Some artists still do it the traditional way - Rebecca Guay, for instance (my fave Magic artist hands down, although I haven't seen much from her for a while now). I *think* Terese Nielsen also hand-draws and paints her illustrations, but I might be wrong.
Yeah I am not sure about that anymore, once they started to go digital they stopped accepting other types of art forms for the cards because scanning in and color correcting the traditional paintings was time consuming and difficult for them and created some logistical nightmares.
Then again maybe some artists make traditional paintings of their magic cards just for fun on the side.
Who knows though, only the artist that created the card knows for sure if there is a physical copy or if it is just digital.
Plenty of Magic artists still work with traditional media, and bring their paintings to Magic tournaments and conventions. I'll be looking for Wayne Reynolds at one of the summer's conventions....
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1 year ago ::
Apr 13, 2012 - 10:57AM
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Date Joined:
Aug 27, 2009
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This card reminds me of lurking predators  . I have a certain elephant tribal deck that would just love these! The art is fantastic, too.
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Control is the key of a mill deck. You should free up your mana as much as possible so that you can respond to whatever your opponent is doing. Having some way to remove threats, both real and percieved, is necessary to survival. Real threats are those that are already on the field, and are something a simple unsummon  or doom blade  can remove. Percieved threats are those that aren't on the field, something a simple duress  or counterspell  can deal with. Controlling the board will allow your mill deck to continuously perform, if you use permanent style mill, that is.
One-Shot Mill spells are something you should avoid. You can toss tome scour  s at your opponent until your hand runs out, but that isn't going to be enough to mill them to death. With 1-shot mill spells, like tome scour , you have to treat them like burn spells. Therefore, the only "good" 1-shot mill spells are sanity grinding  (in the right deck) and mind funeral  . Try to find more permanent styles of milling, like memory erosion  , hedron crab  , and curse of the bloody tome  , so that you don't have to waste your mana each turn doing something that those permanents can do with a single mana/turn investment. Keeping your mana open allows you to respond with control elements.
Traumatize  Rant. Traumatize is a terrible card for a multitude of reasons. First, it costs 5 to cast, which is a large investment for a mill deck. Milling half a library sounds neat, but if you do the math, it really isn't that much. An average 60 card deck starts with drawing 7 cards. Then, barring any draw spells on their end, or ramp on yours, 5 turns will go by, where they draw 5 more cards, leaving 48 in the deck. Unless they had a deck with more than 60 cards, or you ramped it out, the most you'll ever mill with a single Traumatize on turn 5 is 24 cards. That's not too shabby, but hang on, there's more! If they drew any additional cards or if they were milled before turn 5, that number will be much lower. In addition, any more Traumatize's you draw will only mill less and less as the game goes on...which is the point of a mill deck. My whole point on Traumatize is the it is NOT worth the 5 mana investment, not even with haunting echoes  . You can mill more than 24 before turn 5...which you can then cast the echoes.
If you look at a mill deck like a burn deck, you'll notice that it takes longer to win with mill than with burn. For example, lightning bolt  costs 1 and does 3 out of the 20 damage needed to win (barring any lifegain or damage prevention). For mill, that same investment of 1 would have to mill 9 cards out of an average 60 card deck to be the equivilent of lightning bolt . The problem is that there is no mill card that can do that...except hedron crab , over a period of time. The initial investment of 1 will pay off in 3 more land drops to make the crab equal to a bolt. However, the crab nets you more mill beyond those 3 land drops, making it better as the game draws on. Other cards, like curse of the bloody tome , are excellent ways of milling an opponent because the initial investment of   is all you have to pay in order to put your opponent on a clock. All you have to do is stay alive, which is the true goal of a mill strategy.
There are other ideas for mill decks that are specific to certain types of strategies. Combo mill decks can mill an entire player's library out from under them. Secondary mill strategies are usually tied to another strategy, like drowner of secrets  in a merfolk deck, or halimar excavator  in an ally deck. Milling can be done in certain decks that are able to ramp out enough mana to make use of the higher costing mill spells, like using 16 x post  to pay for X on sands of delirium  or for ambassador laquatus  . Multiplayer mill decks are even tougher to build, but can be done. Being a slower environment[/c], it is easier to ramp in multiplayer, allowing for big X spells, like mind grind  , to be useful. Consuming aberration  is another star player. The more straightforward strategy is to use mesmeric orb  and dreamborn muse  while being the only deck at the table that can deal with it  . There are always new strategies coming out with each new set, so check gatherer for any new mill cards that you find to be the most fun for you!
Now you can say that you haven't fallen into the trap that most new players fall into when they build their first mill deck!
 : Order, Law, Faith.
 : Knowledge, Artifice, Control.
 : Corruption, Death, Self-Interest.
 : Freedom, Destruction, Victory.
 : Nature, Growth, Life.
 : Progressive, but too controlling.
 : Focused, but short sighted.
 : Skilled, but hypocritical.
 : Unified, but without a sense of self.
 : Cunning, but devious.
 : Inquisitive, but incautious.
 : Rational, but impulsive.
 : Powerful, but spiteful.
 : Instinctive, but selfish.
 : Fearless, but reckless.
Name:  Keino
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Weapon: Staff of Fire ( =2x dmg/ =4+3 dmg)
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1 year ago ::
Apr 14, 2012 - 1:29PM
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Cats land on their feet. Toast lands peanut butter side down. A cat with toast strapped to its back will hover above the ground in a state of quantum indecision.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 19, 2012 - 6:45AM
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Date Joined:
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Can be good in GW humans
With a lot of humans of course
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